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Same thing containers/jails are useful for on Linux and *BSD, without needing to spin up an entirely separate kernel to run in a VM to handle it.

• tensor 1y ago
  MacOS apps can already be sandboxed. In fact it's a requirement to publish them to the Mac App Store. I agree it'd be nice to see this extended to userland binaries though.
  • Etheryte 1y ago
    You can't really sandbox development dependencies in any meaningful way. I want to throw everything and the kitchen sink into one container per project, not install a specific version of Python, Node, Perl or what have you globally/namespaced/whatever. Currently there's no good solution to that problem, save perhaps for a VM.
    • NewJazz 1y ago
      Hmm have you tried devenv? https://devenv.sh/ https://devenv.sh/ UV is pretty good for python too.
      • haiku2077 1y ago
        uv doesn't provide strong isolation; a package you install using uv can attempt to delete random files in your home folder when you import it, for example.
• NewJazz 1y ago
  People use containers server side in Linux land mostly... Some desktop apps (flatpak is basically a container runtime) but the real draw is server code. Do you think people would be developing and/or distributing end user apps via macOS containers?